This tournament will be funded with prizes donated by GL! The premise is also his idea.

Rules:
Single Minion, must use UC, no ranged weapons (DD included) after the first week. After the first week, you may not fight any targets other than those in your bracket.

During the first week, you may use any equipment. Once the bracket begins, you may not use any rare equipment.

BA cap of 1500 for the first week (you must enforce this yourself) and a total cap of 1600.

How to win:
For the first week of the tournament anything goes, as long as you are using a single minion with UC. After the first week, the tournament will become a bracket. Anyone within 60% of the top MPR will be given a spot in the bracket, and from there one round will occur per day.

Each player will have to fight their target three times. Only a win counts for you, everything else counts as a loss. Whoever wins the majority of the 6 battles will go to the next round.

I have a question. Since you can only use the lesser tats for 1 week, would it be legal to loan them out for free for that one week period? I am assuming it would be, but I just like to be sure of myself.

Slayer will need to confirm for sure, but having chatted with GL about this tourney last week I know the intention for it was a single minion UC tourney, which means UC minion, not fake UC FB minion tourney.

UC versus UC, you could conceivably train a UC to a higher proportion of your total MPR and have a bigger weapon than the highest MPR, who may have invested more in HP for instance. And having a higher UC could mean the bigger MPR might not be able to hit you as much as they would like...

Lol, okay so the first week is going to be a bunch of fake UC teams.. then when the second week starts, everyone is going to untrain and have enough money for those rare armors that will boost their UC up a bit. :)

This is complete crap. Restarting shouldn't be allowed in a tournament with all of the starting BA. Just look at Mandos's new tournament character. 197MPR per BA while the 2nd highest is at 138 MPR per BA.

This is a tournament. In any tournament I have ever played or watched do they allow restarts. Imagine If during the NFL playoffs: A team was allowed to restart after the 1st quarter. Baseball? Hockey? Basketball, Ping Pong? Poker? None.

Anyways I do appreciate tournaments and I know rules usually get established from people trying to abuse the system. Some of the suggestions above look good, I hope we can have something set for next time to avoid these problems.

If there's to be no restarting, then in any tourny with the full BA cap to start, all Tourny characters *must* be created the moment the tourny starts, and all BA spent asap, as otherwise, the guys who leave starting till later get this 'bonus' of being able to follow the progress of those who've already started.

Imagine if someone new to this tourny just made thier character now. They've not restarted, yet would have the same perks as someone who did.

Seriously, it's not restarting that's caused any sort of inbalance, it's (if you really think it's such a large inbalance) starting after others to let them pave the way for you.

Seriously, I was busy on the weekend and away yesterday for work, so I haven't had the time to think about the tourney seriously. I don't think that there should be a penalty for starting late, because for some of us, RL may actually stop us starting on time.

let me rephrase that:
since anyone can restart at any point and people can join really late and still be competitive (perhaps even stronger than the people that start at the designated time), I'm done.

The problem is, if you don't allow it (in the type of tourny that gives you your BA upfront), it would just push people into waiting for as long as possible before making their go at it, so there's more chance of learning from those who've played before you.

Hell, even if you forced everyone to make thier one tourny charcater on the first day, I could wait, and not spend any BA until the last day, just to get this sort of advantage. (Or as close to the end as I thought I could get away with, due to BA burning time taken...)

I reckon, if this is possible, to have a tourney where you can either make it that each player can get one restart
or
that on everyday, the BA cap is reduced by 80 BA; i.e if you don't fight at all you lose 80 BA from your BA total, you fight 10 fights you lose 70 BA from your current BA total and so on to where anyone who has spent 80 or more BA loses no BA from their total. For this tourney set it to stop when people reach 100 or less BA. For this there would be no retiring and restarting.
This means that people can't restart to get an advantage or wait till later to follow those doing the best.

For the first day there would be no BA removal but everyday afterwards it would decrease by 80 BA. Anyone who joins later loses BA equal to the number of days they were not present (excluding the first).

No worries, I wasn't talking about any one person in general, It just seems like everyone is upset about something they shouldn't be upset about.

I will however note that I strongly hope your idea does not get implemented in any form, as people should always have the right to restart if they feel. If the world always catered to the whiners it would indeed be a dull dull world.

Why do we prevent people from abandoning their accounts, giving up all their characters and items, with the desire to restart with a NUB?

The answer I hear is that the knowledge of how to play CB gives you a very distinct advantage the 2nd or 3rd time around.

How can the same not apply in the tournament?

But... Everyone does have the same chance to restart so it is an even playing field. For those with the time to have many do overs.

I personally do not wish to spend the time to restart again and again and possibly again in order to make the perfect character, with the perfect MPR/battles fought ratio in order to make it to the bracket portion of the tourney.

If I would have kept my first character, I would have been left out of the bracket portion.

So restarting, if one started the first couple days, was essential to being competitive.

Yes, it is my choice not to restart. However, I would like tourneys in the future, at least some of them, of this style to not allow restarts.

Good luck to all that are playing, make the bracket portion be competitive.

Mandos, I can see where you're coming from, but it was an EF. How do we know that it wasn't just a named RoBF when it was sold? Well, for one, the tattoo would still be named, but as you can see on SK's tourney character, it's not named.

When you search Flame for completed auctions it shows up. It's also possible it was a named item and the naming ending between now and then.

Either way you scored a very large tattoo. I don't really care, just don't whine about restarting being unfair, because one could easily whine about your success being 100% due to your own luck in finding a large tattoo /and or an robf also.

Like I previously said I don't really care either way I was just pointing out that life isn't fair and urging people to grow up and stop whining about every little thing.

I 'move' that SK and Emotion's tournament characters be reset, and maybe even a fine in place. What they are doing is abuse no matter how you look at it.

SK is gimping his character so that emotion can fight it (The Force), and when Emotion is fighting it (A 100% target for emotion, boosting his score super high), SK is using the force to lose to someone else, so emotion is literally fighting 45-50 fights in a minute. (check battle log, 48 fights in 1:08 for example) Then SK retrains his character so no one else can fight it, and then he fights emotion's character for 100% bonus. How is that legal?

I've only just noticed this, but considering SK has over 1300 fights against emotion's character, and Emotion has been farming SK's character for the past 2 days (695 in the past 24 hours), this is plain abuse.

If this kind of action is truly condoned in this tournament and in future tournaments then I feel sorry for the entire CB community.

Seriously, shame on you guys. Even if you win this tournament and Slayer lets it fly, you're both still losers in my eyes from this day forward.

* You may not use Decay unless told otherwise.
* You may not use tattoos unless told otherwise. Only lesser tattoos will ever be allowed.
* You may not buy items via auctions from any player participating in the tournament, including yourself.
* You may auction any non-rare item as a tournament character, in addition, you may auction rares, as long as they are fully disenchanted.
* You may not sell items to the store with your non-tournament character, in order to buy them or transfer them to another tournament character.
* You may not retire your tournament character unless you plan on creating a new tournament character, or quitting the tournament. Please chatmail Slayer333 if you retire your tournament character early.
* You must use at least 1/2 of the BA cap to be eligible for a prize in any tournament.
* You may not intentionally "gimp" a character so that it is beatable by tournament characters.
* You may not name items.

You'll see and I quote "You may not intentionally "gimp" a character so that it is beatable by tournament characters."... ... ..

"You may not retire your tournament character unless you plan on creating a new tournament character, or quitting the tournament. Please chatmail Slayer333 if you retire your tournament character early. "

I miss when this read "You may not retire a tourney character except on the first day of the tournament" (or something close to that, not an exacgt quote, but it was once a rule)... was kinda banking on this when i started a day and a half late...

Oops i put an axbow into Auctions without disenchanting it. Sorry i forgot :(. I can't change it now either as you it won't let me disenchant it while its in Auctions and i can't cancel because it has a bid on it. Sorry bout that.

Wow... He also tried the same trick to me but a little differently. He kept healing his tourney char since i was already beating it. He said he's jsut speeding up my fights. I didnt know this was illegal so i agreed to it, and when i didnt want to fight his character anymore(CB was getting low) he asked if i could take off my RoBF so that he can beat me to return the favor... i didn't agree to that part simply cause i found it stupid to help another competitor win the tournament im trying to win, and if i'd known the first part was also illegal i would not have agreed to it either. Hopefully i do not get banned from this since i was already beating his character at that time, it was just sped up... A LOT

And to SK... it was me and emotion's first tourney (that's what i read in chat neways) so good job ruining it for us if we both get disqualified

What is to stop someone from equipping and fighting with a tattoo when no one is looking and claiming the win?? Maybe once the bracket begins, is it possible for slayer to manually remove all tattoos / banned items?

It's obvious that people will always try their hardest to get around the stated rules when there is a prize up for grabs :(

SLayer have you never played a sport that required a bracket? You can't just have everyone fight each other or you will get 5 people in the semis. I would recommend a 16 man bracket with the 6 highest seeds getting a bye. This is about all you can do short of cutting out two people to a eight man bracket.

The word Costra and nok are not in spell check so i have to keep typing more so i can post this... so how's everyone doing! I'm excited to see how this tourney ends good luck to everyone! oh man i really hope this is enough for me to post

3 wins again :D
and maybe everyone should've had one round against all the other character's in the top 4 and whoever has most battles won added up from all 9 fights (3 for each other character in top 4) decides the rankings (1st,2nd,3rd,4th)